Toft Hill Primary School: Curriculum Overview Year 6...Toft Hill Primary School: Curriculum Overview Year 6 Maths Block 1: Numbers & Place Value Block 2: Four Operations Addition &

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English

Reading Skellig – David Almond Macbeth – William Shakespeare The boy who flew – Fleur Hitchcock

Farther – Grahame Baker-Smith Moth: An Evolution Story – Isobel Thomas (c.c. science)

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Coming Home – Michael Morpurgo

Reading The Girl of Ink & Stars – Kiran Millwood Hargrave Varmints – Helen Ward (c.c science)

The Longest Night of Charlie Noon – Christopher Edge The Matchbox Diary – Paul Fleischmann

Reading

Writing

Narrative

Setting description

Non-chronological reports

Writing

Narrative

Letters

Explanation

Writing

Toft Hill Primary School: Curriculum Overview Year 6

Maths

Block 1: Numbers & Place Value Block 2: Four Operations Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication & Division * Block 3: Fractions ** Block 4: Position & Direction * PD Mastery 2.24 **PD Mastery 3.9

Block 1: Decimals * Block 2: Percentages * Block 3: Algebra Block 4: Converting Units in Measurement Block 5: Area, Perimeter & Volume Block 6: Ratio & Proportion *PD Mastery 3.10

Block 1: Properties of Shape Block 2: Problem Solving Block 3: Statistics Block 4: Problem Solving SATs revision and SATs week Followed by maths investigations, challenges and projects

Science Evolution & inheritance Do you know about variation and

adaptation?

explore theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace

investigate ‘beak’ formations and how the Industrial Revolution impacted upon the survival of black peppered moths

examine scientific evidence from plants and animals, including the production and varied use of slime

know how fossils have been used to gather the necessary evidence to support theories of evolution.

Which came first the chicken or the egg?

Living things & their habitats Are Kipling’s ‘just so’ stories based on

facts?

Classification of plants, animals and micro-organisms.

Animals, including humans Light Electricity

History

A local Study - Birthplace of Railways Why did Shildon’s population rapidly grow

in the 19th Century?

Know the local history and the impact of the railways on the town of Shildon.

use a digital mapping programme to look at how the area changed and developed during the early 1900’s

use ‘Ancestry’ to trace personal heritage of residents at that time.

visit the area and walk the original railway route

visit the Locomotion Museum

No history studied this term. Local Study: Did the Battle of Britain affect our community?

Geography Fantastic Journeys Where could we go?

To spark pupil’s curiosity about some of the fantastic places around the planet, pupils

will learn about some of the UNESCO World Heritage cultural and natural sites of

international significance – from Durham Cathedral to the Great Barrier Reef to

Mount Everest.

No geography studied this term. Where has my food come from?

They will develop knowledge of geographical space – where places are located and why they are there, developing knowledge of the way mapping conventions are used at a global scale to accurately describe places, longitude and latitude. They will also use these fantastic destinations as a way into the different biomes of the world and their key features.

PE

Tag Rugby Dance

Handball

Gymnastics

High 5 Netball

Rounders

Athletics

RE

Why do people use rituals in their lives? What is a ritual and what does it involve?

What happens during the rituals of

baptism, prayer and wedding ceremonies? What do the gospel stories tell us about the birth of Jesus?

So, what do we know about Christianity? (Exploration through the concepts) Demonstrating understanding of what they have learnt about Christianity through the 4 concepts

What do Christians believe and how do they express this?

How do these beliefs have an impact upon

Christians today? Why are Good Friday and Easter Day the most important days for Christians?

Islam: What do we already know?

What are the beliefs of Muslims?

How and where do Muslims worship?

What happens during Ramadan?

Art

Birds: Our prehistoric ancestors Children will use different artistic techniques and drawing media including; pencils, paints, printing inks and sculpture resources to become creatively inspired to draw birds including a blackbird, feather and owl, using the context of Skellig (class novel).

Art & Design Skills In this collection of lessons children will learn and develop their skills in: design, drawing, craft, painting and art

Make my Voice Heard! Exploring art with a message, children will look at the famous ‘Guernica’ by Picasso and the confronting works of Käthe Kollwitz and through the mediums of graffiti, drawing, painting and sculpture, create their own artworks that speak to the viewer.

Photography Through developing their photography skills, children will cover useful artistic concepts in a new context, looking at: composition, colour, light, abstract images and underlying messages. By familiarising themselves with new photography artists, children can gain a new perspective on the way they look at the people and objects around them, capturing and presenting images in different ways. Still Life This memory box topic is all about pupils revisiting their still life skills, creating a variety of pieces influenced by different artists and using a range of mediums. They

appreciation; working as a group to design a hat, creating zentangle patterns and subsequent prints, painting in the style of impressionist painters and exploring the piece ‘Nighthawks’ by Edward Hopper.

will use charcoal, erasers and paint to depict their chosen composition of special objects before using them to construct a box to showcase their work.

DT

Cookery: Early 1800s meal Children will work alongside a ‘chef’ to prepare, cook and enjoy eating a meal from the early 1800’s - enhancing their local history study. Food preparation will include; singing hinnies, golden slices, split pea soup, cream of parsnip soup and corned beef fritters.

No DT in this term.

Music

Playing a stringed instrument: ukulele

Playing and performing solo and in an ensemble

Singing

No music in this term. Playing a stringed instrument: ukulele

Playing and performing solo and in an ensemble

Singing

Ancient/Modern French - The four friends (unit 5) French - Life and Health (unit 6-10)

languages

Animals

Colours

‘Four friends’ story

Food

Opinions

Healthy eating

Sports

Market

Life cycle of plants

Jack and Beanstalk

Computing

Coding

Use conditional sentences (when/then)

to program objects

Use mathematical expressions when

constructing conditionals eg trigger

winning when (If loops >5 then…)

Be able to explain what a program

might do and accurately predict the

effect of changes

On-line safety

Safe and unsafe behaviours

Reporting

Privacy and passwords

Cyberbullying

Copyright and plagiarism

Commercialism and scams

Searching

PSHE/RSE

Health & Wellbeing

To keep themselves and others safe

To recognise how images in the media do not always reflect reality

To make informed choices

To recognise that pressure come from a variety of sources

To recognise emotions and know they might be conflicting

Relationships

To recognise: discrimination, teasing, bullying and aggressive behaviours (including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual and those suffering from poor mental health)

To be aware of different types of relationship

Know that differences and similarities between people arise from a number

Living in the Wider World

To research, discuss and debate topical issues, problems and events (Autumn Term – Performance Poetry: We can be more by Solli Raphael)

To explore and critique how the media present information.

Why and how rules and laws that protect themselves and others are made and enforced

of factors, including family, cultural, ethnic, racial and religious diversity, age, sex, sexual orientation and disability (see ‘protected characteristics’ in the Equality Act 2010).

SRE How their body will change as they approach and move through puberty

Whole school focus

Anti-bullying week (11th – 15th Nov) Work of Charities

Black History Month (Oct) Children in Need (Nov) Christmas Jumper day

National Obesity Week (13th – 17th January)

Safer Internet Day (4th Feb) World Book Day (5th March)

Science week (9th – 13th March) Easter

National Day of Happiness (20th March) Energy Saving Assembly (OASES)

Diversity: LGBT, Awareness days

Experiences

M&M Theatre Production: The Railway Children + workshop

NSPCC: Childline workshop Safety Carousel

Shildon: local study visit including Locomotion Railway Museum

Auckland Project: Mining Art Gallery – printing and object handling workshop

Macbeth theatre performance

Handball tournament

Resilience training: Rainbow’s End Residential to Lockerbie Manor

Visit to Beamish: Felling Mining Disaster 1812

Play in a Day

Samba band Cookery experience

Handball tournament Pantomime

Judo Taster session Christmas Party

Parental involvement

National Poetry Day Assembly Parents’ evenings

Christmas Production

Parents’ evenings Parents’ evenings